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Training - San Jose Library

The San Jose Library manages a variety of websites for San José Public Libraries and San José State University Library. After evaluating several systems, the web team decided to use Drupal for their projects and began working to learn to use Drupal. In order to speed their trip up the Drupal learning curve, they decided to engage Growing Venture Solutions for training.

About the training, team lead Sarah Houghton-Jan said:

Greg's training was well-organized, starting with the basic and progressing to the more advanced topics. Greg is extremely knowledgable about every aspect of Drupal. As one of the community's most active members, he has an incredible range of information immediately at his disposal about the system's capabilities and processes. The training was extremely flexible - Greg let us stop and ask questions whenever we wanted, pause for hands-on work, and breeze through issues of less interest to us. Greg is a very friendly trainer, approachable, easy to work with, and amazingly knowledgable. I would recommend him for any institution seeking training on any aspect of Drupal. Though we had three days of training, I wish we had five instead so that we could have gone more in depth into each topic and access Greg's wealth of knowledge!

The Library training was a blend of our standard training curriculum and some customization to fit their needs.

The Dao of the Drupal Community

Greg Knaddison

Growing Venture Solutions

July 2008

DrupalCamp Colorado - Welcome!

Greg Knaddison

greggles

2008/03/05 9:00
DrupalCamp Colorado

Best DrupalCamp Colorado Ever!

The bathrooms...

Big thanks to Denver Open Media.

Big thanks to Aten Design Group.

Do-ocracy
Drupal(Camp) is what you make of it.

tag it: drupalcampcolorado

drupalcamp

(on monitor upstairs)

Lightning!

S5 Presentation Layer.
Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System
(no, it's not SSBSSS nor S2BS3)
(because Eric Meyer said so)

<!--pagebreak--> + words = presentation!

Where are the slides?
Oh...they're already online in a shareable format.

Quick Introduction to Views 2

Greg Knaddison

Growing Venture Solutions

July 2008
DrupalCamp Colorado

What is Views 1?
The views module provides a flexible method for Drupal site designers to control how lists of content (nodes) are presented.

What is views 2?
The views module provides a flexible method for Drupal site designers to control how lists of anything are presented with a kickass Ajax interface.

Questions?

Demo!

Raffle for Komodo
Advanced help
Non-node tables

Session list (and block)
Basic node list
Overrides

Comments + moderation

Image + ajax + minipager = carousel...?

Stump the Chump!

DrupalCamp Colorado - Great Sessions, Sponsors, Prizes

We're just under 3 weeks away from DrupalCamp Colorado 2008 which will be held July 26th and 27th. We're accepting more presentations and already have several great sessions to vote on.

I want to highlight a few notable things about this DrupalCamp.

Remote Presenters Welcome

Thanks to the work of Kevin Reynen we are welcoming remote presenters to the camp. If you can't make it to Colorado but want to share your message, this is your opportunity.

Great Sponsors and Prizes

Why You Should Use Pathauto (or at least Path Aliases for Many Pages)

I recently saw a comment about Pathauto and started writing a really long reply that seemed more valuable to share here.

Basically one of the questions people have is "Why should I use Pathauto? If I don't care about SEO is there any other reason?"

This is a valid question to me. There is some indication that users don't look at the URL bar. During the Usability testing at UMN we never noticed people looking at the URL bar in the eye-tracking data. But some people certainly do look at the URL bar - people who like "hackable urls" do

Hackable URLs

I use it extensively to create "hackable URLs" that are valuable to a user. A "hackable url" or "index alias" is the feature on a site where you have a post and then users can remove the title down to the previous URL element and get the other posts from that month, one more layer for the year, and one more for that user since forever. See - fun! I even made a movie about it:

Site Credibility Prior to the Click

I frequently get URLs sent to me via email and IM. Compare these two URLs:

http://drupalcampcolorado.org/node/38

vs.

http://drupalcampcolorado.org/content/our-sponsors

Which one are you more likely to click on? Which one helps you understand what content you are going to get before you even get there?

Easy to Remember URLs

Drupal Download Statistics - January 2008 Data

Ever quarter I try to munge and analyze the download data. The data for January is now available. Views continues its reign at the top of the module list. Images and WYSIWYG remain popular. Popular themes continue to be dominated by those that start with letters at the beginning of the alphabet.

Most Popular Drupal Modules

Drupal Security?

Check the presentation formatted version of this page.

Greg Knaddison

Growing Venture Solutions

2008/07/27 14:00
DrupalCamp Colorado

Pathauto 5.x-2.1 Released

The Pathauto module is a rather popular one for Drupal. In November Pathauto 5.x-2.0 was released which included a restructuring of several features to add new features and enhance scalability. There have been almost 50 bugfixes and features added between 5.x-2.0 and 5.x-2.1. See the release page for full details.

I wanted to blog about this for a few reasons.

Pathauto Configuration/UI Changes

First, there was a change to the UI in the way that feed aliases are handled to better support the use of Views for taxonomy feeds. I've udpated this in the upgrade guide (which, especially for folks upgrading from 5.x-1 or 4.7, should be required reading). There were also several improvements to the UI to simplify it and help people figure out which token is the right one to use. This was a major problem with the 2.0 release so I hope that the 2.1 will be easier to use. There is still room for improvements but...

Comaintainer and Maintenance Status

Second, this release is likely to be the last for a while. Now that this 5.x branch is more stable I plan to spend some time working on the 6.x branch to get a stable release of that. I'd also love a co-maintainer which mikeryan has offered to help which would take the module full circle to its author. I'm broadcasting this here to be a responsible maintainer given that I have less bandwidth in the coming months to dedicate to Pathauto because...

Prediction Market Module

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